[ic] When I add new items via the interface, others disappear

Tom Luong interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Wed Jun 11 07:44:01 2003


From: <tech@mnwebdesign.com>

> Thomas Asher wrote:
> > I am having an ongoing problem.  I am using Interchange
> > 4.8.7, Perl version
> > 5.6.1.  Whenever I try and add additional products via the
> > interface, I lose
> > hundred of products already in the database.  In other
> > words, the database
> > has 350 products in it.  I add an additional product, and
> > suddenly, not only
> > is the new product not in the database, but I only have 100
> > products left!
> > The confusing part is, that if I go the the URL for one of
> > the products that
> > dropped off, I can call the product page.
>
> Not sure, but maybe this will help:
> http://www.icdevgroup.org/i/dev/docfly.html?mv_arg=icdatabase03%2e01
>
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> Good luck!
>
>
> Curt Hauge

Also, you could try checking your error.logs
but a way around this is you could build you database on a spreadsheet like
excel then save it as a text delimited file then import into your cart. that
way you would always have a back up on you local machine.

Good luck,
Tom